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Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader?

This is a new show on Fox. That tests smart adults on history, social science, math and health taught in 2nd through 5th grade. The question is not why adults can’t remember this knowledge but rather why are we teaching stuff to kids that they will forget? Perhaps they forget it because they never get to use most of the knowledge for anything. It also might be that 90% right is an outstanding grade but that means they never learned the other 10%. If that’s 10% on every test for 12 years, that’s a lot of missing knoweldge.

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